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li Y naar N. PETERS, FH NER` WASHINGTON D C y able UNITED STATES PATENTOFFICE.

ADAM FISHER, OF LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS.

WASHING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 17,784, dated July 14, 1857.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ADAM FISHER, of Leavenworth city, county ofLeavenworth, in the State of Kansas, have invented anew and usefulImprovement in Machines for Washing Fabricated Materials; and I dohereby declare that the following is a full and .exact descriptionthereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to theletters of reference marked thereon.

The nature of my invention consists in the corrugated rubbing cylinderA, constructed with a series of troughs or buckets extending nearly thewhole length of its face at suitdistances from each other, which bucketsbring up the water from the back end of the box of the machine andconstantly Vthrow it onto the article being washed; also in combiningwith the abovementioned rubbing cylinder a plain cylinder covered with afabricated material and hung upon springs, as hereinafter described Toenable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I willproceed to describe its construction and operation.

In the accompanying drawing (E, E,) represents an oblong box of theproper size and proportion, in one end of which is hung in suitablebearings the .rubbing cylinder (A). Said cylinder has its facecorrugated or fluted longitudinally and also on its face, running in thesame direction with the flutes, and at suitable distances apart, deeptroughs or buckets, closed at either end,

` which bring the water up from the back end of the box (E) and pour iton to the top of the small cylinder (B) (as represented by the bluelines in the drawing) or upon the article thereon. The level of thewater in the box is described by the blue lines.

(B) is a plain cylinder about one-third the diameter of the rubbingcylinder; it is covered with two or three thicknesses of canvas or otherthick fabricated material for the accommodation of buttons on thearticles to be washed, and is hung on two springs (b b), which aresecured to the bottom of the box. It will be observed that that part ofthe periphery of cylinder (B), which is adjacent to cylinder (A) extendsa little under the latter or back of a vertical line tangential to thefront portion of periphery of (A).

The box (E E) is supported by four legs of convenient height (K K).

(D) is a cover, which may be removed at pleasure.

(I) is the crank on the shaft of rubbing cylinder and is operated bymeans of the treadle (II).

The operation of my machine is as follows, viz.: The clothes to bewashed are placed in the box (if deemed expedient to let them lie in thewater), a piece is taken up by the o erator and one end introducedbetween t e cylinder (A) and (B), t-he operator holding on to the otherend, and operating the pedal (H) with the foot and soaping the garment,which is rubbed by the corrugated cylinder (A) running against the plaincovered cylinder (B). At the same time the cylinder (A), by means of itsbuckets (c c), pours the water down on top of the garment, which isallowed to feed through or pulled back and resoaped and held while thecylinder (A) rubs it. The cylinder (B), being hung upon springs (b b),freely yields to accommodate different thicknesses of articles tlt maybe fed between it and the cylinder It will be seen that with my machinethe articles or clothes can be eectually rubbed; and operating as itdoes, the piece can be fed in between the cylinders (A) and (B) andeither allowed to feed through or be detained, drawn back and resoa edand rerubbed in any particular spot, wiile the garment is open forinspection, being above the Water, it is still kept constantly floodedWhile feeding through the cylinders. The piece fed through, returnsunder the bottom of cylinder (B) to the front end of the box.

Having described the construction and operation of my machine, what Iclaim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

Tlie combination of the bucketed wheel (A), constructed as described,with the plain surfaced rubbing wheel (B), the whole constructed andarranged substantially as described.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this ninthday of February, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.

ADAM FISHER. [n s.]

Witnesses:

J. N. MOINTIRE, ARTHUR C. WATKINS.

